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You obviously know better than we would, but Fox title with British actor in Oscar winning role could hardly be more in Indicator's wheelhouse

Well whomever releases Melvin and Howard first has my money, been wanting that for ages.

Screen Archives TT Oscar History Sale

Twilight Time's website has a similar sale that includes a few ClassicFlix titles

PRICE BRACKET 1: $26.95
ANNE OF THE THOUSAND DAYS (1969)
A MAN CALLED PETER (1955)

PRICE BRACKET 2: $24.95
CINDERELLA LIBERTY (1973)
GERONIMO: AN AMERICAN LEGEND (1993)
GLORIA (1980)
THE HOT ROCK (1972)
LET'S MAKE LOVE (1960)
MY GAL SAL (1942)
THE OTHER SIDE OF MIDNIGHT (1977)

PRICE BRACKET 3: $19.95
ALICE (1990)
BENEATH THE 12-MILE REEF (1953)
BOB & CAROL & TED & ALICE (1969)
DOCTOR DOLITTLE (1967)
FOREVER AMBER (1947)
THE FORTUNE COOKIE (1966)
THE HOSPITAL (1971)
HUSBANDS AND WIVES (1992)
THE L-SHAPED ROOM (1962)
MY COUSIN RACHEL (1952)
PEYTON PLACE (1957)
SAYONARA (1957)
SUDDENLY, LAST SUMMER (1959)
TOM SAWYER (1973) / HUCKLEBERRY FINN (1974)
YOU'LL NEVER GET RICH (1941)

PRICE BRACKET 4: $14.95
ANASTASIA (1956)
THE BAREFOOT CONTESSA (1954)
COMES A HORSEMAN (1978 / PLEASE SEE TRANSFER NOTE)
EXODUS (1960)
THE GANG'S ALL HERE (1943)
I WANT TO LIVE (1958)
INTERIORS (1978)
JULIA (1977)
KISS OF DEATH (1947)
THE KEYS OF THE KINGDOM (1944)
THE MEMBER OF THE WEDDING (1952)
MISS SADIE THOMPSON (1953 / 2D and 3D)
THE TRAIN (1964 / ENCORE EDITION)
TWO FOR THE ROAD (1967)
ZELIG (1983)

PRICE BRACKET 5: $9.95
APRIL LOVE (1957)
THE BEST OF EVERYTHING (1959)
BORN FREE (1966)
BOUND FOR GLORY (1976)
BROKEN LANCE (1954)
COWBOY (1958)
THE EDDY DUCHIN STORY (1956)
FAT CITY (1972)
THE FRONT (1976)
THE HAPPY ENDING (1969)
HAWAII (1966)
THE HAWAIIANS (1970)
THE REMAINS OF THE DAY (1993)
SENSE AND SENSIBILITY (1995)
THUNDERBOLT AND LIGHTFOOT (1974 / ENCORE EDITION)

The Paper Chase release has been cancelled and replaced with Three Coins in the Fountain

Sorry to report to the Twilight Time faithful that our April Titles "pre-announcement" was in error, as Fox has advised that THE PAPER CHASE (1973) was spoken for elsewhere and our skulls full of mush will not be replaced by lawyerly thoughts. However, we are pleased to substitute a comparably desired gem -- and double Academy Award winner -- THREE COINS IN THE FOUNTAIN (1954), from a 2016 4K restoration. It joins MELVIN AND HOWARD (1980), THE SNAKE PIT (1948) and STAGECOACH (1966) on the April 16 hi-def Blu-ray Release Roster. Thanks for understanding.

I honestly can’t believe it’s taken this long for someone to release Three Coins in the Fountain on Blu-ray

Hmmm, I wonder who has The Paper Chase. Kino?

Probably Shout, Kino dont have a current active Fox deal.

The Quiller Memorandum (Michael Anderson, 1966)

"Brand-new 4K restoration transfer"

Tentative Release Date: March 19, 2019
Preorders Open: March 6, 2019 at 4 PM EST/1 PM PST

Special Features:

• Isolated Score Track
  Audio Commentary with Film Historians Eddy Friedfeld and Lee Pfeiffer
  Original Theatrical Trailer

Booklet artwork:

Gunning for the lucrative Q-anon market, I see.

whaleallright wrote: Thu Feb 28, 2019 12:12 am Gunning for the lucrative Q-anon market, I see.

I'm just going to go out on a limb and say that the majority of that crowd are probably unaware of the movie's existence.

The River's Edge (Allan Dwan, 1957)

Tentative Release Date: March 19, 2019
Preorders Open: March 6, 2019 at 4 PM EST/1 PM PST

Special Features:

• Isolated Music & Effects Track
  Audio Commentary with Film Historians Alain Silver and James Ursini
  Original Theatrical Trailer

Booklet art:

The colours on Twilight Time's Rock Hunter disc are appalling. Not worth replacing the MoC BD for.

Looks like Fox did a 4K scan on this film. The grading is not unlike those of Bigger Than Life, River of No Return, Hajji Baba, Desk Set and other early Scope features.

I don't know what's happenning with those (and you can add a few others to this list, like Wild River, The Blue Max, Desk Set, ...), but it does look like Fox is having some kind of institutional way to grade those movies. Do they have a common thing that would explain such a choice ?

No. Fox restorations have had colour issues for years (at least IMHO), most are noticeably blue pushed.

One plus of the new remaster is that they have fixed the mumps/squishing.

That's my understanding too, but I'm not particularly knowledgeable about Fox productions and wondered if they might have shared some post-production processes at the time.

The Big Fix (Jeremy Kagan, 1978)

Tentative Release Date: March 19, 2019
Preorders Open: March 6, 2019 at 4 PM EST/1 PM PST

Special Features:

• Isolated Music Track
  Original Theatrical Trailer

Booklet art:

Strangely on the front cover a 30-year-old Dreyfuss has been given black hair with a lot of gray in it. Compared to the accurate brown hair on the back cover, this was hard not to notice.

Any opinions on The Big Fix? I was considering a blind buy.

The Whole Town's Talking (John Ford, 1935)

Tentative Release Date: March 19, 2019
Preorders Open: March 6, 2019 at 4 PM EST/1 PM PST



Booklet art:

jazzo wrote: Tue Mar 05, 2019 1:27 am Any opinions on The Big Fix? I was considering a blind buy.

I actually just saw this a few weeks ago. It's an enjoyable, if insignificant neo-noir with some excellent footage of 80s Los Angeles. It's also maybe part of the first wave of boomer cinema (which I have a weird soft spot for) that looks back on the 60s with rose-tinted glasses and that would culminate with Forest Gump. But it's never cutesy or mystifying like Forest Gump and really nails in the failures of the 60s via Richard Dreyfuss' uncouth, divorced, failure detective and F. Murray Abraham's sell-out. Dreyfuss' mother, a geriatric ex-communist who still believes in the cause, really steals the few scenes she's in and is almost worth watching for here. It's an interesting variation on The Long Goodbye's playfulness with various intersecting groups and classes colliding, but no wear near the level of mastery that film achieves with a director like Robert Altman.

Thanks so much. That’s about what I expected, but I have a real soft spot for shaggy detective stories, so will probably pick up during one of their sales.

Gregory wrote: Mon Mar 04, 2019 6:33 pm Strangely on the front cover a 30-year-old Dreyfuss has been given black hair with a lot of gray in it. Compared to the accurate brown hair on the back cover, this was hard not to notice.

The front cover art's from the original poster. Maybe Fox did the color grading.

May titles via HTF:
BABY THE RAIN MUST FALL (1965)
BANDOLERO! (1968)
MORITURI [aka THE SABOTEUR: CODE NAME MORITURI] (1965)
WARLOCK (1959) [4K Restoration]